A Litany of the Gospel’s Power

to Deliver From Culture

Sunday Morning Worship

October 24, 2004

Colossians 3:11 11 In this new life, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile,
circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that
matters, and he lives in all of us.

Ephesians 2:11 - 3:1 11 Don't forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders by birth. You
were called "the uncircumcised ones" by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision,
even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. 12 In those days you were
living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not
know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and
without hope. 13 But now you belong to Christ Jesus. Though you once were far away
from God, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of Christ. 14 For
Christ himself has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one
people. He has broken down the wall of hostility that used to separate us. 15 By his death
he ended the whole system of Jewish law that excluded the Gentiles. His purpose was to
make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new person from the
two groups. 16 Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of
his death, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. 17 He has brought this
Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and to us Jews who
were near. 18 Now all of us, both Jews and Gentiles, may come to the Father through the
same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. 19 So now you Gentiles are no
longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You
are members of God's family. 20 We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles
and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We who believe are
carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you
Gentiles are also joined together as part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.

Galatians 3:26-28 26 So you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 And
all who have been united with Christ in baptism have been made like him. 28 There is no
longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians-- you are
one in Christ Jesus.